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lyrics

Hey, send in the clowns
Looks like they’re already here
Torches light up the town screaming tyranny and I need to cut my hair

And love is a flower trampled under all your dime store jackboots
And I wonder by the hour how did this
self-righteous anger take root anyhow, spurious sacred cow

Mama don’t raise no losers
But somehow now, you’re everybody’s fool
Collective will, will roll this bolder up that hill
You’re no exception to this rule.

Hey, the camera caught you screaming
It’s the only game in town
What colour do you dream in, a few subtle shades of brown

But every hill that you’ll die on is the slightest change in elevation
Instinct you rely on by a gaslit state-run tv station coup d’etat,
open carry baseball bat

Mama don’t raise no losers
But somehow now, you’re everybody’s fool
Collective will, will roll this bolder up that hill
You’re no exception to this rule.

Walks in everyday life now. Evangelic a-la-carte
The preacher’s taken a wife now and inveigled her body, mind and...

Mama don’t raise no losers
But somehow now, you’re everybody’s fool
Collective will, will roll this bolder up that hill
You’re no exception to this rule.

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from Before The Collapse Of The Hive, track released November 10, 2023
Stephen Stanley - Vocals, Guitars
Chris Bennett - Guitars, Vocals
Chris Rellinger - Bass Guitar
Cam Pyziak - Drums
Hugh Christopher Brown - Keyboards, Vocals
Pete Bowers - Percussion
Jason Mercer - Banjo
Ron Hawkins - Vocals

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The Stephen Stanley Band Toronto, Ontario

The Stephen Stanley Band announce their new album, Before The Collapse Of The
Hive (Wolfe Island Records) will be released on November 10, 2023. It's an album
brimming with raw, unflinching urgency, steadfast observation and soul-searching storytelling
that highlights Stephen's immediate world: those he loves, and those he's lost.


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